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It has certainly struck a chord. Prime minister-elect Narendra Modi, ever since his historic and teary-eyed inaugural speech in Parliament’s Central...

In about four months, India will enter the 40th year of one of its most unique programmes, the world’s largest, on early childhood development. The...

The return of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in particular in an electrifying electoral result that took...

The transition from an arch-campaigner and chief contender for the top post in government to the Prime Minister finally taking the reins in his own...

It isn’t morally and ethically acceptable for Arvind Kejriwal and Aam Aadmi Party to not face the electorate once again and have the luxury of the...

There’s a lesson for India’s prime minister-designate Narendra Modi in Beijing and Moscow’s recent bonhomie over the proposed ‘historic’ gas alliance....

The backdoor privatisation of nationalised banks is underway and does not bode well for this mammoth sector. With an RBI working committee headed by...

The despicable farce that the Congress Working Committee meeting on Monday played out before a tired and impatient audience of Indian citizenry nicely...

As the euphoria over verdict 2014 cools, the warts begin slowly surfacing. A study by Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR) and National Election...

Bihar chief minister’s resignation, a day after his party Janata Dal (United) lost to its former partner BJP in the 16th Lok Sabha elections, should...

Referendum 2014 is India’s redesignation as a rightwing nation, in clear and unorthodox terms. It has been made out to be a mandate on economic...

Indian democracy has spoken. It is a victory more evident than many others, at least since the late Rajiv Gandhi-led Congress won the sympathy...